Homelessness Archives - Page 63 of 99

ByKelly Virella 0Comments

Vandals Deface LGBT Homeless Shelter For Youth

Two days after a New York State Senate bill that would have outlawed discrimination against transgender and gender-bending people was defeated in the Senate's Judiciary Committee a Queens homeless shelter…

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Justice

Homelessness Strikes More NYC Children

The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children.…

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Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Tenants & Pols Protest Handling of Housing Vouchers

It's been six months since the New York City Housing Authority went back on a promise to help 2,600 low-income New Yorkers pay the rent. In that time 27 families…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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ByKateryna Stupnevich 0Comments

Justice

Immigrant's Choice: Family Separation Or Child Mutilation

People on the street in Saint Louis, Senegal. The U.S. State Department says femal genital mutilation is widely practiced in Senegal. Photo by: Alexandra Pugachevsky Some deportees must choose whether to leave…

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ByHannah Rappleye 0Comments

Life in the Towers: 'I'm Tired Of Ducking Bullets'

Ebone Ryals, a resident at the Towers for many decades, helps Janey and Letitia plant. Photo by: Hannah Rappleye A day at River Park Towers reveals a lot about what low-income New…

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ByHannah Rappleye 1Comment

ARTS and CULTURE

Pot Smoke, Dead Elevators & Killer Paint: Life in the Towers

On a warm Saturday morning a few weeks ago, a group of older tenants at the River Park Towers in Morris Heights, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, set up…

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ByEileen Markey 0Comments

Poll: New Yorkers Fear Becoming Homeless

A study released today by the Institute for Children and Poverty, a research and advocacy organization, finds homelessness is a major factor in the lives of New Yorkers. A third…

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Economy

After The Quake, Rebuilding Haiti From Brooklyn

The donation drives and telethons might be over, but local foundations and Haitian groups are just beginning their work to help the country and its people rebuild.

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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